Hannah Arendt was right that the greatest evils result from a remarkable shallowness and unwillingness to think in unremarkable people.
Some of these people have found their way into positions of power and influence. Some support those who have. The shallowness is the same.
Some of them find false assurance, from certain accumulated credentials, that they are somehow not unremarkable, but their very shallowness, moral and intellectual, and disinclination to think prove their banality.
Such shallowness and disinclination to think have permeated American society, notably among the "intelligentsia," here in the decadent phase of Western Civilisation, where truth--truth for its own sake--is held in contempt.
Breathtaking corruption, especially in the centres of power, notably Washington and the news media, is ignored, injustice tolerated, truth scorned in favour of banal propaganda, truth seekers vilified and destroyed.
The greatest danger to America--to the American Dream--to the American People--is this banal indifference, the banal unwillingness to think, to seek truth and embrace it wherever it appears.
Note tagline.
The Flynn case still puzzles me. Flynn was in “intelligence” and the DC Swamp for many years. He had already been targeted when he was head of the DIA. Has he not seen such political games before? What was he threatened with to make him plead guilty to a crime he didn’t commit? If you are going to say “his son” then please explain what the FBI thought they had on his son. To me, he rolled-over very easily - and they still bankrupted him.
Also - of all the top lawyers in Washington, WTF would he hire Eric Holder’s law firm as his defense? He got screwed twice.
The more we look to government to solve our problems, the more our enumerated “rights” become reduced to “privileges” handed out by government.
Well said and my tagline agrees.